SABIA

Executive Management

SABIA management and technical team include the individuals who pioneered the PGNAA implementations now in use throughout the industry and who played a key role in developing their markets.

Clinton Lingren – Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Lingren is one of the founders of SABIA and was also a founder of what is now Thermo Gamma-Metrics in 1980 and of Aurora Technologies (name changed to Digirad Corporation) in 1991. Prior to founding Gamma-Metrics, he was Manager of the Nuclear Instrumentation and Control Department of General Atomics where he directed the development of the world’s first all-digital radiation-monitoring system for nuclear power plants. At Gamma-Metrics he directed development of nuclear instrumentation and of the world’s first commercial PGNAA bulk material analyzer. He later focused on nuclear reactor instrumentation with total profit/loss responsibility and introduced that product line into Europe and Asia. At Digirad he held the post of Senior Vice President, directed development of the world’s first all-solid-state gamma camera for nuclear medicine, and handled intellectual-property and regulatory issues. He holds sixteen issued patents and has others pending.

Edward Nunn – Vice-President Finance and Administration

Mr. Nunn has a varied background that combines operational and financial management. He joined SABIA in January of 2008 after spending twenty years successfully growing the business for various sectors of Paychex, a national payroll and human resources organization. The final ten years were spent in overseeing the growth of the San Diego market from 6,000 to 13,000 clients.

In addition to the operational assignment at Paychex, Mr. Nunn has held the top financial management positions at Coca Cola Bottling of Tucson, Canteen Corporation in Seattle, and Unarco Industries, Sturdi-bilt Division. He holds a bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Accounting from Southern Illinois University and a master’s degree (M.S.E.L.) in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego.

Mr. Nunn is very active in the community and teaches economic concepts through Junior Achievement classes in elementary schools and provides leadership seminars to high school students.

Steve Foster – Founder, Executive Vice-President, Director of Marketing

In 1999, Mr. Foster founded his highly successful Nuclear Instrument Services Company, which formed the basis for SABIA’s customer services. He worked at Gamma-Metrics the prior 16 years where he filled the positions of Project Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Director of Field Service, and Product Manager for their Fast Lab instrument. At Gamma-Metrics he became an expert in bulk-material analyzer applications for cement, coal, and other minerals. Prior to joining Gamma-Metrics he played a key role at General Atomics in developing a system for fully automated production of nuclear fuel for High Temperature Gas Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors and was also Project Manager for Digital Radiation Monitoring Systems (DRMS) for nuclear power plants. Mr. Foster holds four patents.

James F. Miller – Founder, Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer

A founder of Gamma-Metrics, Mr. Miller directed electronic design and development, nuclear licensing and safety analyses from 1980 to 1999. He had primary technical responsibility for the electronics of most of the instruments developed in the division in which he worked during his 11 years at General Atomics and 19 years at Gamma-Metrics. His experience includes all aspects of development and design of instrumentation and control systems, process-control systems, high-speed, digital- and analog-data-acquisition systems, analog- and microprocessor-based safety and control systems for nuclear reactors, and analysis instrumentation. That experience also includes elimination of EMI and RFI in highly noisy environments and verification and validation of software for nuclear safety systems. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in electrical engineering and nuclear engineering and a Senior Member of IEEE. He holds five patents and is a member of the International Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1999.

Nick Andrews – Director of Engineering

Mr. Andrews has over twenty-five years of experience developing products for a wide range of applications including process control, industrial automation, medical instrumentation, real-time data display, operating systems, and digital signal processing. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and holds a patent in the field of Modern Control Theory. He developed and marketed Byte-BOS, one of the first portable real-time operating systems, and licensed it to hundreds of companies. In addition, he has years of experience providing consulting services, negotiating contracts, and marketing products through his own businesses. At SABIA, he plays a key role in R&D and directs the activities of a multi-disciplined engineering staff.